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Green Inheritance: Saving the Plants of the World
Shows how rewarding our green inheritance is - before it is too late and we destroy our life-support system Highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant...
The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of
A breathtaking adventure across six continents that reveals the intricate cultures of native societies and their strategies of coping with climate change. You can't turn on the news today without...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary...
Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The bothy embrace is addictive' ADAM NICOLSON 'Will have you reaching for your boots' CAL FLYN ....................................................................... A...
After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis: Quarterly Essay
Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistake. Yet, in After...
Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words- 'The world is split between those...
Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters - and How it Affects You
Take a deep breath. You'll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it's the very breath of life. But in Delhi, the toxic smog...
Billabong Boy
This is Arron's story, from a boy who loved to explore his local billabong to international award-winning speaker, and his struggles to keep balanced while being an inspiration to those...
Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment
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Presents evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals,...
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...
30 Easy Ways to Join the Food Revolution: A sustainable cookbook
This is the first book of its kind to present sustainable eating with a failsafe 30-way recipe plan for readers to follow and cook from. Based on the simple principle...
The Spirit of the Rainforest: How indigenous wisdom and scientific
'Every page feels alive with passion' - Sophie Pavelle, author of 'Forget Me Not' 'A beautiful book' - Levison Wood, author of 'Walking the Himalayas' 'A heartfelt account of exploration...
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world. Its impact has been linked to strokes, heart attacks, cancer, premature birth and Alzheimer's disease. The people affected...
The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
Dismissed by contemporaries as the ravings of a deluded enemy of modernity, The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century is an eerily prescient denunciation of capitalism's assault on the atmosphere...
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the
A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in...
Sunbirth
As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novel In Five Poems...
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the...
Rewilding Africa: Restoring the Wilderness on a War-ravaged Continent
Conservationist Grant Fowlds lives to save and protect Africa's rhinos, elephants and other iconic wildlife, to preserve their habitats, to increase their range and bring back the animals where they...
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by
A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. The Green New Deal, now spearheading the national conversation, is setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the...
A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian
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The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist...
Wildlife in the Balance: Why Animals are Humanity's Best Hope
Dubbed as perhaps one of the most important books of our time, Wildlife In The Balance unearths the untold stories of wild animals, their immeasurable impact on the health of...
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine"The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." -...
The World's Heritage: The definitive guide to all World Heritage sites
Bestselling guide to all UNESCO World Heritage sites Fully updated to include the latest sites added to the World Heritage List. The List is managed by the World Heritage Committee...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibben'I learned something new - and found something amazing - on...
After Us The Deluge: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels
In After Us The Deluge, Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, co-founder of the photo agency NOOR Images, shows the consequences of rising sea levels for mankind. He travelled to six...
R.E.Generation
After 50,000 years in a chemically induced sleep, Sarah and her fellow R.E.Generation volunteers awake to find a world devoid of human life. Climate change has wiped all mammalian life...
How to Unf*ck the Planet a Little Bit Each Day
Global warming, plastic pollution, deforestation, species loss and rising inequality got you down? Then take your very valid concerns and channel them into action with this proactive guide to saving...
Planting a Paradise: A year of pots and pollinators
Selected for The Times Best Gardening Books of the Year 2023 Every garden, large or small, in a town or in the country, even one formed completely by pots, can...
Planting a Paradise: A year of pots and pollinators
Selected for The Times Best Gardening Books of the Year 2023 Every garden, large or small, in a town or in the country, even one formed completely by pots, can...
The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with
Climate change, visualized. Climate change, shrinking wildlife habitats, rising sea levels, and vanishing species. These are big, important ideas that deserve a proper exploration just the type of revealing journey...
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the
The 1994 publication of the The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of renewed and heated debate. Now,...
The Worlds Heritage: The definitive guide to all World Heritage sites
Bestselling guide to all UNESCO World Heritage sites Fully updated to include the latest sites added to the World Heritage List. The List is managed by the World Heritage Committee...
I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast: A Celebration of Plants Around the World
Enter the incredible world of plants to learn about the green machines of the natural world. Using just the rays of the sun, trees and flowers help create everything from...
Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests
For decades, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of bitter struggle. Sawmillers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while political games are played in the...
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
Global warming and the resulting climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world community. Global Warming: the Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available...
Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters - and How it Affects You
Take a deep breath. You'll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it's the very breath of life. But in Delhi, the toxic smog...
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your
Tallamy lays out all you need to know to participate in one of the great conservation projects of our time. Read it and get started! Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
Your Plastic Footprint: The Facts about Plastic and What You Can Do to
Though plastic has numerous benefits, our reliance on this sturdy, light and flexible material, paired with its longevity and our changing consumer habits means we've created a real plastic problem....
Extinct Birds
A comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Extinct Birds was the first...
On Common Ground: Managing Human-Planet Relationships
Presents in a non-technical, accessible style an overview of natural Earth systems and processes as well as the impact of human activities and decisions on these sytems. Readers will come...
Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film
Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.-Kenneth E. Foote, The University...
Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us About Our Health And Our World
Sentinel Chickens shows us how birds provide insights at the cutting edge of science and merit our sustained attention. 'The idea of 'sentinel chickens' seemed pretty incongruous when I first...
Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice
George Monbiot is a fearless heretic, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. In these incendiary essays, he tears apart the fictions of religious conservatives, the claims of those who deny...
Cheetah's Tale, A
This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. In the early 1960s,...
Climate Change and Social Justice
The impacts of climate change can already be felt in society and on the Earth itself. As new evidence of the environmental impact of climate change is constantly emerging, we...
This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the
We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. But it's time...
Placing Nature: Culture And Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology is a widely influential approach to looking at ecological function at the scale of landscapes, and accepting that human beings powerfully affect landscape pattern and function. It goes...